From Bloomberg via The Financial Post, March 12:
The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday it will reconsider the Obama administration’s so-called endangerment finding, a move that could dismantle the legal foundation for sweeping climate change rules.
The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday it will reconsider the Obama administration’s so-called endangerment finding, a move that could dismantle the legal foundation for sweeping climate change rules.
An overhaul of the 2009 determination that carbon dioxide, methane and four other greenhouse gases threaten the public health could allow the agency to roll back regulations limiting pollution from power plants, automobiles, and oil wells. The EPA on Wednesday also moved to revise Biden-era power-plant rules.
EPA Chief Lee Zeldin last month privately urged President Donald Trump to allow a rewrite of the endangerment finding after the president asked the agency to evaluate its “legality and continuing applicability.”....
....MUCH MORE
From the Endangerment Finding to the Tailoring rule.
Monday, December 7, 2009
01:15 P.M. EST "U.S. EPA to make 'significant climate announcement'"
From Reuters:The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it would make a "significant climate announcement" at 1:15 p.m. EST (1815 GMT).The EPA has been expected to issue a final ruling that greenhouse gases endanger human health. That finding would allow the agency to issue rules to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, even if Congress fails to pass legislation to cut U.S. emissions of the heat-trapping gases that scientists say cause global warming.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told Reuters last month the endangerment finding was being considered by the Office of Management and Budget and that the agency was hoping for an expedited review....MORE
Also December 7, 2009 - EPA Issues Carbon-Emissions Rule, Giving Obama Copenhagen Tool
As we said thirteen years ago:
EPA Chief Jackson Signs Tailoring Rule, Probably Illegal. Coincidentally D.C. Court of Appeals Hears Arguments Tomorrow
This is a pretty big deal affecting approximately 20% of GDP.
The question is whether the EPA or any Executive branch agency has the power to ignore the actual wording of the Clean Air Act to "tailor" the rules. Tomorrow and Wednesday a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear two full days of oral arguments on this and three other issues.
But, the Appeals Court didn't listen to moi:
U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds EPA's Tailoring RuleThe court sees no problem granting power to the bureaucrats that was never intended and wasn't in the law.
I can see part of the argument for the auto emissions and the Mass v EPA re-hash but the Tailoring rule is just makin' stuff up.
This is going to the Supremes but for now You just keep me hangin' on.
